Onsen

I was very tired. I wanted to go to onsen so I went to the public bath. It wasn't a real onsen but still good to be in the big baths. It's only 360 yen so I sometimes go to the bath.

When I go to public bath, I get in sauna bath. I watch TV in there and stayed about 10 minutes each time. It's very hot and you sweat a lot but it feels great after you get out. I repeat getting in and out of sauna at least twice. Right after I get out of the sauna, I jump into the cold water. You have to be a little brave because it's extremely cold. I also like roten buro. Roten buro is a bath outside. I can relax and feel time passes so slowly.

I ofcourse tried both today. And I felt relaxed and great after I got out. I drank a cup of drink and went home.［162 words］

I caught a cold

When I woke up today, my throat hurt so bad. I gargled with the medicine but I still don't feel good. My voice sounds different. It's kind of stuffed and deeper. I actually prefer this voice to my usual voice. I cough a bit so I've been wearing a mask today. Mask is very different from what it used to be. I haven't worn it long time and didn't know that. It is much bigger as it can cover the whole part of your chin and more comfortable. You won't suffocate at all. It was a little surprising. I wanted to sleep and rest all day but I had 2 classes in the morning.

The best treatment to cold is to eat well and sleep well. I ate a lot but I haven't slept much. I'm going to have to work in the evening. I hope it won't get worse. Now it's afternoon so I'm going to sleep for a while before work.


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The Korean restaurant I want to recommend

Yesterday I went out eat with my friends. First we planned to go eat nabe so we searched for a restaurant serves nabe. We found some but they were all full so we couldn't get in to any of them. We walked a lot and it was very cold to be outside. We were starving as unbearable so decided to give up nabe and go wherever we could get in. Then we found this place "Seoul".

It was located on Kaminoura tori. It was a Korean restaurant. We ordered a couple of meet for yakiniku and our drinks first. I liked the homey atmosphere of the restaurant in a bit of Korean mode. While we waited for the drinks and meet, we closely looked at the menu. There were many Korean foods such as bibimbup and kuppa. They all looked good. We decided to order Korean style ramen, cold noodle, and kimchi fried rice besides the yakiniku meet. Once they came out to our table, we started to broil them. They sounded so good. The meet was very juicy and delicious. The quantity of the food on one plate was pretty big. The noodles and the fried rice came. Those three dishes were all spicy but tasted so good. We drank lots of water too. ［271 words］

The thing I learned

When I woke up this morning, I found my father still in bed. He's usually the one who wakes up earliest in the family so it was weird. I asked my mother if there was anything wrong with him and she said he had a stomachach and threw up a few times last night. She took him to the hospital and he was diagnosed as having the notorious norovirus. Norovirus is a highly infectious disease and prevelaent for these years so I was threatened when I heard that. I'm very thankful from the bottom of my heart for the fact that there are two bathrooms in the house. I will never use the one he has been using. He's been locked in his room and asleep all day. Every time he uses the bathroom it should be sterilized. It's not nice to say but I really don't want him in this house right now. It is very scary to be in the same house with him. But it's too cold to be outside so I have to stay here.

The virus appeared to come from the oysters he ate last night. They were raw and he was the only one who ate the. Thank god I didn't eat that oyster yesterday!! Oyster is usually my favorite food but yesterday, I just didn't feel like eating it. I'm so sorry for my father but I don't want to even get close to him right now. And I learned another lesson from this experience: get oysters cooked, before you eat them.
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Sleepy

I couldn't sleep much last night because I came back home from work at 4:30 am. I finished working at 3 am and went to a public bath after that. That is why I came home a little later than usual. I started to work part time from 11 pm to 3 am until the end of the year. I will soon be in holidays and have much of free time so I decided to use it to earn money. But I still had 3 classes today.

I actually got into bed before 5 and had to get up at 9:30 for the first class which starts at 10:40. Even though I was very sleepy and didn't feel rested at all, I immediately got ready and left for the university by motorbike. I didn't eat breakfast. It is extremely cold when you ride a motorbike in winter. I wear a mask to cover my face so that I can avoid the wind and I also wear a knit cap underneath the helmet so that my ears won't hurt as if they fall down.

The first class was International law. This is very interesting and I usually enjoy it but today, I was too tired. I couldn't concentrate on the lecture. It was hard just to be awake and sit. I tried hard. In the break, I went to library and rented some books to write reviews for Writing 4. I wanted to sleep there for minutes but I still had other things to do. I needed to visit a professor for something but she wasn't in her room that time. I needed to go to Maruzen, the book store and pay 6000 yen and apply for the English test. I had no time to sleep or eat lunch during the break. The next class was Education. I couldn't stand anymore and slept for about 20 minutes so I felt better. My friend sat next to me. He said he's going to buy a computer. The last class was TOEFL. We practice TOEFL in this class. We did writing practice today. Writing doesn't make me sleepy so I was fine during this class.

Finally I'm finished all the classes in 2007 and came home.Once I came home I ran to the bed and fell asleep. It is now 9:35 and I just woke up. I feel good. I think I will be awake all night because I already slept a lot today. But I don't have school tomorrow so I guess that’s ok. ［423 words］

Book Reviews 1-2

Sally is a young woman who lives with her family. One morning, she was woken up by her boyfriend’s phone call. It was only six. Her boyfriend’s name is Andrew and he said her to come to the dinner with his new job that night. He also told her to wear a blue skirt she had and hung up. Sally didn’t want to wear the blue skirt but Andrew didn’t listen to her. He always doesn’t listen to Sally.
That day, at work, she talked about it to her coworkers. They thought it was absurd. They told Sally to buy a new skirt whatever color she likes. At lunch break, they went to shopping together and Sally bought a red skirt. On the way back to office, she bought called at a coffee shop and bought a coffee. When she bought a coffee, she bumped into a guy. He was nice. He picked up her bag and apologized.
Later that day, her phone rang. She picked up and said “Hello” and they said “Is this Paul?” Sally said “No” and hung up. Now she has Paul’s phone and Paul has Sally’s phone. They mistakenly picked up the wrong ones when they bumped into each others. They called and decided to meet up and return their phones to each other.
Paul thought Sally was beautiful and Sally thought Paul was nice. After they exchanged their phones, they went to have drinks. Sally didn’t want to meet Andrew anymore so she didn’t go to the dinner. It was Paul’s sister’s birthday that day so they went to the party together.

I like the way Sally ditched Andrew. It was immediate and no hesitation or sorriness at all. At the beginning of the story, she was concerned about her relationship because Andrew always tells her to do whatever he likes her to. He didn’t care Sally’s feeling at all. She wasn’t happy. So I thought it was very good for her to meet Paul. Paul is very nice and respects her feelings and taste. (341 words)

Essay 2 " My teasure "

I am going to talk about my treasure. I have three people in my family, my mother , younger brother, and me. My father was dead, before I was born. According to my mother, he was very curious "treasure hunter".
One day. I found a diary old coin in drawer of my desk. First, I thought to throw it away. But, I was gradually interested in it. So, I decided to show my mother the coin. She was amazed as soon as she looked at it. I said, “Mom, what’s up” She said, “Unbelievable!! I could see this again!” She was so excited and started to talk. “you know, your father was treasure hunter wasn’t it?” He drowned in Atlantic Ocean. He hunted for the inheritance of Atlantics. But, he died on his way to the research. I was very sad and cried everyday. Weeks later, I got a letter from this friend. There were a letter and coin. The letter said, your father accomplished his task and found very huge remain of Atlantics. So, the coin was very precious treasure.
I was moved to hear the story. Since then, the coin has been my best treasure. Now, it greatly brighten for me. And, I think my father is respectable person. Although he was dead, he exactly got his dream.
Needless to say, the most precious treasure is my father for me.
Of course, this is a fiction I made up. But this story’s father I made up is “my treasure !!”
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